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The Marineland 300-Gallon DD, is now home. [IMG]
The tank is delivered! Take a look at how they got the tank in the house. Now things are starting to get interesting. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]...
The wall unit was moved to the sides and the stand was put in place to get a visual. [IMG]
If there's anything I learned about staining wood; you have to work fast and with the grain. BTW, I built that wall unit.
All the door panels and stand top are sanded, stained, and polyurethane. To get the color I was looking for the top required three coats of stain....
Thanks :)
The wood panels are in and they look great. The door panels are notched as requested and the top cap of the stand has a 1-inch lip added all the way...
I don’t like the idea of placing the tank along the side of an external wall, but the wife reminded me that we paid extra to have the walls double...
Making a decision as to where in the family room the new tank would be placed I thought would be easy. At first the thought process was to place it...
A carpenter was commissioned to build four wood panels; one for each side of the stand (one for the left opening and another for the right opening)...
Thankfully the stand that was built for the 500 will now support the 300 with class. Joe Biesterfeld a local Reefer with a landscaping equipment...
Needless to say, you will love the lights - slow down we are not there yet :P New stuff to introduce with regards to lighting, which I have been...
I ordered the tank from Riley’s Reef in Jupiter, Florida and paid them a visit once they had the tank at the store. After a thorough inspection of...
Thank you, and enjoy it. i know I enjoyed putting it together.
The 90-gallon was featured in my book as a start to finish build.
Great catch Greg, those were the measurements of the 500, don't know how that happened :-[
Phoenix was awesome, had such a great time. This 300 is built by Marineland.
No, getting rid of it.
A few years passed and I came to discover at a MACNA an awesome series of tanks built by Marineland. They had put together a Deep Dimension (DD)...
That first photo was taken in 06. The tank sat empty for 4 years.
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